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of ferns, amounting in all to some 300 species, he presented 

 to the Botanical School of the University of Pennsylvania. 

 Dr. Eckfeldt is a member of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia ; of the Philadelphia and Delaware 

 County Medical Societies ; West Philadelphia Medical Club ; 

 the Torrey Botanical Club, of New York ; the Philadelphia 

 Botanical Club ; a Hfe-member of the Medico-Chirurgical 

 Hospital; Alumni Society of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania and Medico-Chirurgical College. 



FRANK LAMSON-SCRIBNER. 



Professor Frank Lamson-Scribner* was born in Massa- 

 chusetts, in 1851. His family name was Lamson, but 

 having early lost his parents, he was adopted into a family 

 of the name of Scribner, living near Augusta, Maine ; and 

 there he was brought up. From his youth, Professor 

 Scribner showed his natural bent for botanical pursuits. 

 At the age of eighteen, while still on the farm, he prepared 

 a treatise on the " Weeds of Maine," an illustrated pamphlet 

 of sixty-two pages, prepared for the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, and his first botanical collections, made in 1866 to 1867, 

 were acquired by Bowdoin College. 



In 1870 he entered the State College of Agriculture and 

 the Mechanic Arts at Orono, from which institution he 

 graduated in 1873, with the degree of B. S. He lived in 

 Philadelphia from January, 1877, until May, 1885, during 

 which time he was an officer in Girard College. During 

 his eight years' residence in Philadelphia, he collected exten- 

 sively and wrote some papers on grasses while there. As a 



* A portrait of Professor Scribner appeared in The Graphic, November 19, 

 1892. Article entitled, " The University of Tennessee." 



